Bug 154888 - It's hard to access the caption text in DOC format
Summary: It's hard to access the caption text in DOC format
Status: NEW
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Writer (show other bugs)
Version:
(earliest affected)
3.5.0 release
Hardware: All All
: low minor
Assignee: Not Assigned
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Keywords: filter:doc
Depends on:
Blocks: DOC Caption
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Reported: 2023-04-18 19:17 UTC by Telesto
Modified: 2025-05-24 03:12 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Attachments
Sample (10.88 KB, application/vnd.oasis.opendocument.text)
2023-04-18 19:17 UTC, Telesto
Details

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Description Telesto 2023-04-18 19:17:14 UTC
Description:
It's hard to access the caption text in DOC format

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open the attached file
2. Click inside the caption on for example 'Hello'. It's easy access the caption
3. File -> Save as -> DOC
4. File -> Reload
5. Retry entering the caption to modify 'Hello'

Actual Results:
It's hard to put the cursor in the caption frame to modify hello

Expected Results:
Should be similar as ODT/DOCX


Reproducible: Always


User Profile Reset: No

Additional Info:
Version: 7.6.0.0.alpha0+ (X86_64) / LibreOffice Community
Build ID: c4a58634753a84b09f20f7271d6525a6656522d3
CPU threads: 4; OS: Windows 6.3 Build 9600; UI render: Skia/Raster; VCL: win
Locale: nl-NL (nl_NL); UI: en-US
Calc: CL threaded
Comment 1 Telesto 2023-04-18 19:17:23 UTC
Created attachment 186763 [details]
Sample
Comment 2 Dieter 2023-04-29 14:15:30 UTC
I confirm it with

Version: 7.6.0.0.alpha0+ (X86_64) / LibreOffice Community
Build ID: 006b35d50024b1932d84380b5d2fec1f7066bccd
CPU threads: 4; OS: Windows 10.0 Build 19045; UI render: Skia/Raster; VCL: win
Locale: en-US (de_DE); UI: en-GB
Calc: CL threaded

Additional information
No problem with docx-format
Comment 3 Buovjaga 2023-05-10 13:20:09 UTC
I repro even from scratch with oldest of Linux 43all repo.
Comment 4 Justin L 2023-05-24 18:56:03 UTC
This bug report is somewhat artificial. I doubt it has anything to do with DOC format.

It works fine if the size of the caption box is increased a little bit. The height isn't really big enough to let the cursor access the last row of text, so it is being placed at the end of the image-as-character (as far as I can tell visually).
Comment 5 QA Administrators 2025-05-24 03:12:18 UTC
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